column

In architecture terms the difference between column and colonette

is that column is a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration while colonette is a narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.

As a noun column

is (architecture) a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

As a verb columnize is

to format (writing or data) as a series of columns.

As a noun column

is (architecture) a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

As an adjective multicolumnar is

of or pertaining to more than one column.

As nouns the difference between column and tetrastyle

is that column is (architecture) a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration while tetrastyle is (label) a building (especially a portico) that has four columns.

As nouns the difference between column and strippy

is that column is a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration while strippy is a quilt sewn in vertical columns separated by bars of colour.

As an adjective strippy is

sewn in vertical columns separated by bars of colour.

In architecture|lang=en terms the difference between column and octastyle

is that column is (architecture) a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration while octastyle is (architecture) having eight columns in the front row (of a portico etc).

As a noun column

is (architecture) a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

As an adjective octastyle is

(architecture) having eight columns in the front row (of a portico etc).

In architecture terms the difference between column and columniation

is that column is a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration while columniation is an arrangement or grouping of columns.

As nouns the difference between column and intercolumniation

is that column is (architecture) a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration while intercolumniation is the spaces between adjacent columns (of a colonnade).

As nouns the difference between column and hypercolumn

is that column is (architecture) a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration while hypercolumn is (anatomy) an array of orientation columns in the visual cortex.

In architecture|lang=en terms the difference between column and astylar

is that column is (architecture) a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration while astylar is (architecture) lacking columns or pilasters.

As a noun column

is (architecture) a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

As an adjective astylar is

(architecture) lacking columns or pilasters.